Crispin James Garth Wright is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge, and objectivity.
14 Facts About Crispin Wright
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Crispin Wright is Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling, and taught previously at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, New York University, Princeton University and University of Michigan.
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Crispin Wright took an Oxford BPhil in 1969 and was elected Prize Fellow and then Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he worked until 1978.
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Crispin Wright then moved to the University of St Andrews, where he was appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics and then the first Bishop Wardlaw University Professorship in 1997.
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Crispin Wright has taught at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Columbia University, and Princeton University.
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Crispin Wright was founder and director of Arche at the University of St Andrews, which he left in September 2009 to take up leadership of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.
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Once NIP ceased operations in 2015, Crispin Wright moved to the University of Stirling.
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Crispin Wright is one of the major proponents of neo-logicism, alongside his frequent collaborator Bob Hale.
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Crispin Wright has written Wittgenstein and the Foundations of Mathematics.
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Crispin Wright argues in this book that there need be no single, discourse-invariant thing in which truth consists, making an analogy with identity.
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Crispin Wright argues that in some contexts, probably including moral contexts, superassertibility will effectively function as a truth predicate.
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Crispin Wright defines a predicate as superassertible if and only if it is "assertible" in some state of information and then remains so no matter how that state of information is enlarged upon or improved.
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In epistemology, Wright has argued that G E Moore's proof of an external world is logically valid but cannot transmit warrant from its premise to the conclusion, as it instantiates a form of epistemic circularity called by him "warrant transmission failure".
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Crispin Wright has developed a variant of Ludwig Wittgenstein's hinge epistemology, introduced in Wittgenstein's On Certainty as a response to radical skepticism.